Ray Balestri assists businesses with a wide variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, business sales and spin-offs, private placements, private equity and venture capital investments, C-level employment agreements and employee equity plans, and general corporate counseling. He serves clients across a broad range of industries, including tech, entertainment, software, medical, manufacturing, home services, and energy. He has deep expertise in drafting and negotiating commercial arrangements, including complex software development and enterprise license agreements, limited partnership and LLC agreements, and service, supply, vendor, and customer contracts.

From 2000 to 2003, Ray was the CFO and General Counsel of an enterprise software company, which raised $33 million in strategic and venture capital

Since 2000, Ray has served as an Adjunct Professor, teaching Law of Financial Transactions for Entrepreneurs in the M.B.A. program at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University